StoryTitle("caps", "Washington's Christmas Surprise") ?>
School in concert.
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All hail, thou blessed Christmas time,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When joy-bells ring their merry chime!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The time of gifts and sweet surprise,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of smiling lips and beaming eyes.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
(Pupil enters and recites the following: )
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Not enough of Christmas joys", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Without a Christmas story, boys?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Methinks I've just the one for you,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And what is better still, 'tis true.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then lend your ears and bright young eyes", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While I recount that grand surprise", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of Washington's long years ago,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Amid the Winter's cold and snow.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'Twas in our country's stern old fight", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For Independence and the right.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Within your minds the date well fix", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'Twas Christmas night of seventy-six.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Our army, footsore, weary, sad,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In numbers few, ill-fed, ill-clad,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And fearing much the English foe,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Were spending days in want and woe.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Hessian camp was all aglow,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And freely there the red wines flow;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Their caution on this Christmas night", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In revellings had taken flight.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To Washington was known the way,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Germans oft spent Christmas day,", "") ?>
PagePoem(93, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And so, while they were free from cares,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He planned to take them unawares.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Delaware between them rolled,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The night was stormy, dark, and cold,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The floating ice blocked up their way,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But on they pressed, and morning gray", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Beheld them on the Trenton side", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hard-spent but filled with honest pride;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then on the Hessian camp they fall,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A thousand prisoners take in all.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With booty, prisoners and all,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They follow at their leader's call;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Again they cross the river wide,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And reach the Pennsylvania side.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
Voice
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A brilliant act! A brilliant thought!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And one with mighty issues fraught!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And unto Washington so wise,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We're debtors for that grand surprise.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
Voice
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A record of that daring deed,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Just in his country's hour of need,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Will ever live in song and fame,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While lives the hero's honored name,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And memory keeps, in pictures rare,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That \"Crossing on the Delaware.\"", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
All
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When Christmas fires send out their glow", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Across the pure, untrodden snow,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let thought go back to that far time,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When rang the bells no merry chime;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But one brave heart, 'neath wintry skies,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Planned out this Christmas-day surprise.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—M. Lizzie Stanley.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
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